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3 "P"s in a Tree

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Steve Noyes

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:53:53 -0700

This a.m., while visiting one of my atlas blocks in southern PG County, 3 warblers appeared at the same time in one "budding" tree ... a Pine Warbler, a Palm Warbler and a N. Parula. Other migrants were Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Tree Swallows, Barn Swallows, and a Brown Thrasher. At the mouth of Spice Creek, there were Red-breasted Mergansers, a Common Merganser, Wood Ducks, a pair of Green-winged Teals, lots of Great Blue Herons, Double-crested Cormorants, and a pair of Osprey on a nest that was used last year. A few lingering White-throated Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos and Yellow-rumped Warblers seemed reluctant to leave the area.

Hopefully, this warming weather will cause trees to come alive and insects to become active, thus enticing the Neo's to arrive from the south!

Good atlasing everyone!

P.S.  After I finished my atlasing, I stopped at the Patuxent Research Refuge / National Wildlife Visitor Center tp photograph their nesting Osprey and saw my first Spotted Sandpiper of the season.



Steve Noyes, Beltsville, PG County, MD 

"One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin"  ......W.Shakespeare






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